St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-31
DAKOTA TOMS VIEWS,
He Descants About Johnnie King
and Bald-Headed Brains and
the Bloom of Youth---GiffoPd
Also Receives Attention.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 30.-'Ef he'd
wear a wig on lis head, its my 'pinion,"
said Dakota Tom this evening, John
ME King nd warm up his brains sum-
mat an projuice idears. As he now
goes bout the streets O. Washington,
bare-footed on lis head, no spectacle
idear kin ford to St-st-Stay-ay wild
um. You dom know Johnnie as | 'ap-
pens to know lin. He's a boomer, but
very wild and woolly one. Wen he
comes to Washington, he 'magines as
how congressman an senaturs is gen.
tlemen o. the jury out in the Hills.
But wen he run up agin ole man
Dawes. he nearly busted his intellect.
The ole man fom New England jest
look at Johnnie. grave an dignifed
like, an the young Teller wilted. You
see, Kleiner an Moody, an Clifford an
Pettigrew is men as knows wat is
wat. They has been talkin' to
Dawes an Jones, an lots O.
other good 'uns, an has bin
making Roadway. They knows more
flies is ketched in this town wild honey
than wild vinegar; and henceways. they
goes at man as a gentleman Oughter
go. They is heard, too, respectful. wen
they does their talkin'. My private
'piniOn is, as King has been spillin' the
sOw-belly into the fire. He's learnin'
sense, Kleiner believes an so does Petit
grew, but, this amt no time fer Teller
to be gettin' is education at tn Expense
O. the Dawes bill. / likes King, likes i'm
awful hard. But, don't see as how he
is dom nOthin' but harm about the
Sioux openin' o. the reservation. 1t
70 1C hn 70
win here. By tn way, speakin' o.
Johnnie King, d. you know he used to
live in Chamberlain, opposite American
Island, where they've been findin' ther
bloom o. youth witch Punch de Lean
tried to find wen he was hungry an
everybuddy called him Lean, fer short?
Well, Johnnie lived there an printed
sort o. paper called the Register. He
was out in canoe on the Big Muddy
one afternoon an he landed on Ameri-
can Island.
HE FOUND THAT Celebrated SPRING
an drunk the waiter into it, an he says
as how it amt got no medicinal vir-
chews into it. He drunk the waiter an
he was bright bloomin' boy; since
then he has got baldheaded. It's the
waiter, o. course. No whisky in Cham
berIain could "a made King bald"
Then turning his attention to Clifford,
whom he likes better than he does King,
Tom said: 1.-The delegate is bully fell
low, but he amt got no senatorial sand
into him. He's too quiet an retirin'-like
to ever git into the senate, 'cept as
spectator in the galleries. Look into the
seats o. the senators. Look how full
they fills the chairs. Every one O. them
is big man; an if you look at the rec
Ords you'll find they was all hustlerS.
Clifford don't make no stir. He jest sits
into his seat an writes letters with his
eyes glued down to the paper. He's too
near-Sighted to see an idear if it flew
past his nose. But he's got idears inside
o. that rough pate O. his'n. The trouble
wild Clifford is that he amt got no hustle.
He has lots o. friends, and he depends
onto them. One o. these days his trusted
friends will go back onto him, like Mel
GrigSby tried to do last summer at
Yankton. Didn't know it? Well, you
mus be green. I'd an idear
everybody knowed it. Mel Grigs-
by was a-goin' all over the
hull territory howlin' loud for Clifford
for denomination to congress-. But.
while he was shoutin' Clifford, he was
whisperin' for his own self, same time.
Fortnitly for Clifford he had better men
10 WORK IOr I'm imam GI1gSDy. lne Otn-
ers was true to i'm, an he got through.
But, less he is more careful mex sum-
mer, he'll git knocked clean out at the
convention. There's where Clifford is
too weak for anything. He don't huS-
tle." But as to Moody paying his COM
plimentS to the senator" who was once
a whole constellation of stars of the
first magnitude, Tom said: Poor
Moody! How has the nifty fallen.
Once he was a sure enough senator wild
mission to the floor o. the senate. Now
where is he? He can't even get inside
o. the lobby. Nobuddy is his champion
and nObuddy will play fool for him an
the other we-are-a-staters, as Ben Harri-
son did. NObuddy has got a bee a-buz-
Zin' into their bonnets as hard as Harri-
son had. So none O. the senators will
make such fools o. themselves"